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The film's moderately silly premise is that the conservative, religious Franklin family (mother, father, teen boy and girl) are involved in an accident wherein the parents and brother have a near-death experience during which they meet Jesus, a pleasant but somewhat exasperated soul who removes from them the burden of 'original sin.'

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And I hope you'll come with me on my basic premise that words matter, that they shape the way we understand ourselves, the way we interpret the world and the way we treat others.

You know, it basically uses as its central premise Greek mythology.

And it's based on the premise that there are certain things that are easy for people, but really difficult for computers.

Now as seductive as the idea of control sounds, it's a false premise.

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